The leadership of the Jehovah’s Witnesses has boldly defied court orders to turn over the names and whereabouts of alleged child sexual abusers across the United States. Since 2014, courts have slapped the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ parent corporation – the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York – with multimillion-dollar judgments and sanctions for violating [...]

KINGDOM BULLETIN #12 Over the course of the past 15 years the Watchtower has come under increasing scrutiny regarding child sexual abuse among Jehovah’s Witnesses. There have been numerous high profile lawsuits brought against elders and the Watchtower corporation, multi-million dollar judgments, capped in 2015 with the Royal Australian Commission holding a public inquiry and [...]

Wednesday, July 27 You guide me with your advice.—Ps. 73:24. Whenever we need guidance, we can “take notice of” Jehovah by consulting his Word to find out his view of matters and by seeking to apply Bible principles. Sometimes, though, a trialsome situation lingers. You may have a grievous personality conflict with someone in the congregation. [...]

The Watchtower has produced a brief melodramatic video of a child abuse victim telling her story. It is a slickly produced public relations movie. It even has some drone footage shot over the beach as happy families frolic. At first glance one might assume that the Society is trying to help the many victims of [...]

Allegations of abuse involving two members of the Jehovah's Witness religious movement in Newfoundland have emerged, though details of the charges are protected by a court-ordered publication ban. CBC News has learned that a former volunteer church elder and his son are facing charges. The former elder is charged with sexual assault and sexual exploitation relating to [...]

The leadership of Jehovah's Witnesses have been getting a lot of press coverage lately, for all the wrong reasons. This is not really "news" to readers of this site, but it is noteworthy that the Watchtower's secret doings are being exposed more and more. And what did Jesus say? - "There is nothing covered over [...]

QUESTION: Dear Robert, how is it that that sex offenders out in the world have to go on a sex registry that lets parents know of child molesters living in their neighborhood, that secular law prohibits sex offenders from living within range of a school or park... and yet a sex offender could be sitting [...]

One of the most senior members of the Jehovah's Witness Church worldwide said compensation could be made to people allegedly sexually abused within its ranks if there was a Biblical basis for a redress scheme. . Geoffrey Jackson is one of seven men on the church's New York-based Governing Body, which oversees decisions regarding the [...]

More than 1,000 members of the Jehovah's Witnesses (in Australia) have been identified by the church as perpetrators of child sexual abuse since 1950, but not one was reported to police, an inquiry has heard. The Sydney hearing was told the church adopted a scriptural response to abuse, which it abhorred, and had files relating [...]

Church leaders refused to co-operate with a police investigation into a sex attack by one of their congregation on a teenage girl. Jehovah’s witness Paul Atkin has now been jailed for five years after admitting to sexual activity with a 15-year-old. A court heard the South Shields branch of the church carried out their own [...]

SHIELDS GAZETTE - DAILY MAIL ONLINE - THE JOURNAL - THE SUNDERLAND ECHO "CHURCH officials hushed up a child sex scandal in their ranks and refused to co-operate with police." Over the years the Watchtower Society has been accused over and over by hundreds of child abuse victims and their advocates of enforcing policies upon congregation elders that result [...]

Over the past 10 years the Watch Tower Society has been
rocked by allegations of covering up child sexual abuse among Jehovah’s
Witnesses. After paying out millions in low-profile out-of-court settlements, in
2012 the Watchtower lost a widely publicized lawsuit in what has amounted to
the largest dollar judgment in any case of this kind – being socked for a
staggering $28
million. A jury found that the leadership of the organization instituted
policies that provided cover for a known sex offender.

In the aftermath of that massive judgment against them one
would imagine that Bethel would change their policies and try to be more
proactive in preventing these horrific crimes from being committed against the
children of Jehovah's Witnesses under their watch. But according to the latest communiqué with the
elders in the United States, not much has changed. Here is an excerpt from the
attached PDF:

My wife’s sister is an active Jehovah’s Witness. The two spoke recently and my dear sister-in-law, intent on encouraging us to "come back," related that the Watchtower has cleaned up its act lately, at least as regards its child abuse policy. Unfortunately, she has had first hand experience in dealing with the Watchtower on this [...]

Since the rebellion in Eden
God’s purpose has been to produce a seed. Because of his faith Abraham
was chosen as the one through whom the seed would eventually come.
Abraham’s grandson, Jacob, whose name God changed to Israel, had twelve
sons that produced the twelve tribes of Israel. For that reason in later
centuries God referred to the nation as “Jacob” and more commonly
“Israel.”

Eventually, Judah
produced the Christ and after that others were anointed to become part
of the seed along with Jesus. Because they are to be the actual seed of
blessing God promised would come through Abraham, the Christian seed is
the real Israel of God. Paul explained these things in his letter to the
Galatians.

At any rate, the
Christian Israel of God became corrupt too, just like Israel had before
it – even as the founding apostles foretold would occur. But before the
conclusion of the system a new generation of anointed persons would
appear in the world, thus constituting the Israel of God in modern
times. Since its inception the Watchtower Society has been the seedbed
for anointed Christians (and consequently the weed patch as well) first
called the International Bible Students and since 1931, Jehovah's
Witnesses; making Bethel a sort of capital city for the spiritual nation
that has formed.

It is being called an unprecedented ruling. And it has gone against the Watchtower Society.

A
California jury has ruled against the Fremont North congregation
elders, and also against the Watchtower in New York, and awarded damages
totaling $28 million to Candace Conti, who was sexually abused by a
congregation member when she was nine years old.

Jim
McCabe, the losing attorney for Jehovah’s Witnesses, said he was
stunned and called the ruling “outrageous” - vowing to appeal. However,
in a press release Bill Bowen, the founder of Silentlambs, called it “a watershed moment for children’s safety in the Jehovah’s Witnesses.”

An open letter entitled A Conspiracy of Silence, Soon to End is now (2006) being widely publicized on the Internet and mailed directly to hundreds of Kingdom Halls of Jehovah’s Witnesses, informing them the Watchtower Society’s attorneys are arguing before the court that Bethel-appointed elders have no fiduciary duty towards members of the congregation. But what does [...]

As of May the 10th the mainstream media is beginning to cover the Silentlambs’ press release publicizing the Watchtower’s recent million-dollar payout to 16 victims of child sexual abuse. Evidently the legal department felt that they did not have a very strong case going into court, and so as shrewd lawyers often do they advised [...]

This is an open letter to Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Watchtower Society. It was originally published in May, 2006, and mailed directly to thousands of congregations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It was a senseless and brutal crime. A young bride was viciously gang-raped and left to die – murdered. An [...]

Robert KingThere is only the second coming. True, Jesus spoke of his coming upon the clouds and striking terror into the world, but that is simply the ultimate manifestation of his second coming. And no, I have not seen the A&E program. Someone sent me a link to it, but to tell you the truth, I am not really interested.

1john41Two questions: You said: ‘The fact is, Christ’s second coming has not occurred, as the Watchtower claims.’ I know that Jesus’ second coming has not occurred yet...what I want to ask you is, is there a third coming? Also I want to ask if you saw the Leah Remini A&E show that had ex-JW’s on it? (It aired on Tuesday, Nov 13.)

Robert KingI really appreciate your kind offer. I don't think I need anything that big. I am going to look at some small wood stoves like Home Depot has. I have a ton of firewood. it would surely save on propane. Just bought me a new chainsaw a couple weeks ago too. Been trying to keep active outside cutting and splitting.

Bklyn KevinI have propane also and it's very expensive in this neck of the woods however last year the snow was so severe the propane people couldn't make a delivery to me so thank Jehovah I had the Alaskan coal stove. Robert on another note I have the original wood stove that came with my house in which I removed and it's still sitting in my garage, I think it's about 80000 BTUs and it's in excellent shape...

Robert KingI wish I had thought of that a couple of years ago when we fixed up this barn. Instead I went with a propane wall heater. Don't really have the money to blow on it now. And I am waiting three days now for a propane delivery. :~(

Bklyn KevinRobert perhaps you can use an Alaska coal stove or a wood stove, I know the blowers make a lot of noise but at least you can warm up the place prior to making your video and remember you can always shut off the blower for a period of time without the place freezing,
PS I highly recommend the Alaskan coal stove as it is efficient and economical,in fact I bought them used and they work Wonderful and...

Bklyn KevinMore spiritual food for thought.
Excerpted from What about the 7,000 who are killed?
QUESTION: An article in the January, 2016, Watchtower, on paragraph 14, states that the Bible does not say how many of the anointed will be left at the time that the tribulation begins. However, I have understood from previous podcasts and articles of yours that there will be 7000. I take it this means that the Bible...

Robert KingYou are woefully ignorant. Of course there are anointed Christians on earth prior to the return of Christ. Simply read the the first 3 chapters of Revelation. That's where Jesus counsels the members of his congregation who are anointed. Basically, Jesus tells them to be faithful until he comes, otherwise they will not attain their heavenly reward.